Religion and Revival
This is a vision of a perfect society.
What is Utopia?
The schoolteacher who helped educate the public about the poor living conditions of the mentally ill.
Who was Dorothea Dix?
He developed a method to teach those with hearing impairments, and opened the Hartford School for the Deaf in Connecticut in 1817.
Who is Thomas Gallaudet?
They stressed the relationship between humans and nature and the importance of the individual concience.
Who are transcendentalists?
This poet was little-known during her life, but has since been regarded as one of the most important figures in American poetry.
Who is Emily Dickinson?
These are religious meetings.
What are revivals?
This kind of school trained people to become teachers.
What is a normal school?
He headed the Perkins Institute, a school for the visually impaired in Boston.
He wrote Leaves of Grass.
Who is Walt Whitman?
The name of a group of landscape painters who focused on scenes of the Hudson River Valley.
What is the Hudson River School?
This is drinking little or no alcohol.
What is temperance?
This college admitted both women and African Americans.
What is Oberlin College of Ohio?
She made it her life's work to educate the public about the poor conditions for prisoners and persons suffering from mental illnesses.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
Refusing to follow a law that you disagree with is an example of this.
What is civil disobedience?
These printmakers created popular prints that celebrated holidays, sporting events, and rural life.
Who are Nathaniel Currier and James Merritt Ives?
This is a speech meant to provide information.
What is a lecture?
These two groups faced barriers to becoming educated and having careers in the 1800s.
What are women and African Americans?
He created an alphabet for the blind.
Who is Louis Braille?
This man wrote The Song of Hiawatha.
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?
A wave of religious interest that swept the nation in the early 19th century.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
He believed education is the key to wealth and economic opportunity for all, and founded the nation's first state-supported normal school.
Who is Horace Mann?
Dix discovered that some inmates were guilty of no crime, but suffered from this instead.
What is mental illness?
TRUE OR FALSE: American authors began to imitate European writers.
FALSE!!!!
He went to jail in 1846 rather than pay a tax to support the Mexican War.
Who is Henry David Thoreau?